227746 Col.Sgt. Frank Cooper British Army 1st Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment from:Aston, Birmingham My father, Frank Cooper joined 1st North Staffords in early 1938, under age. He sailed to India in 1939, serving in Calcutta and Ahmednagar as Company Qtr Master Sgt/Color Sgt with D Company before being posted to supply work with PAI Force in North Persia/Iraq.
From there, en route to officer training in Bangalore, he served with 7th Leicesters whilst they were training for the second Chindit Campaign. He Commissioned into the Cameron Highlanders, serving with a training battalion in Scotland, and then with a Royal West African Frontier Force pioneer unit in West Africa and the Canal Zone, where he was Adjutant, Camp Branch GHQ Middle East until leaving the Army to come home in early 1947
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